Yep. I've picked apples, too. Enough to know that the idea that using American
labor to pick them would cause apples to cost fifteen bucks apiece is sheer
lunacy, a fictional number with no factual basis whatsoever, invented for no
purpose other than scaring people into believing the lie that our economy
would collapse without the cheap labor provided by illegal aliens.
Do the math. You claim an apple picker can easily make $20 an hour. Now let's
suppose that the picker's wage is only one-fifth of the retail price of an
apple. That means $100 retail worth of apples picked in an hour, or (at $15
per apple) one apple every nine minutes.
That's one damned lazy apple picker.
And one damned stupid grower, who's paying that lazy-ass picker three dollars
_per_apple_.

Problem is, you can't get "'Murricuns" to do the work at any price...the
unemployed are mostly in the urban centers and on welfare. Unemployment
here in rural, ag area is under 3%. Since typically 1% or so is
considered "unemployable", it's already scraping the barrel for bodies.

dollars
just
Doug Miller's only contribution to this group is to argue. He does nothing
else. He does not seem to care if he is right or wrong as long as he is
arguing. He has joined the rest of the idiots in my bozo bin.

I notice that the man said a "good picker" can make $20 an hour..
In my experience, the pay is ZERO $ an hour and you get paid based on how many
boxes you fill..
mac
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No, he didn't. This is what he said:
"A (Mexican) apple picker can easily make $20.00 an hour. "

Of course. But my point is that there is _no_way_ that apples are going to
cost anywhere near fifteen dollars apiece anytime in the foreseeable future,
no matter _who_ picks them. That's just another scare story put forward by the
apologists for illegal immigration. The math just doesn't add up.

I can tell you from experience that apples won't get that expensive... it would
have worse consequences..
I central California they solved the labor problem by plowing over the orchards
and building houses..
What do they do to make up for the loss of crops?
They import fruit and vegetables from Mexico..
mac
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